Friday July 1st, 2022 -
Popular Stories :
- As gas prices and inflation continue to soar, President Joe Biden on Wednesday, June 22, called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax through September, the traditional end of the nation’s vacation season.
- With America experiencing an unprecedented increase in cyberattacks and malicious cyber activity, internet safety is becoming more important every day. In 2021, a record number of more than 847,000 complaints of cybercrime were reported to the FBI by the public, with potential losses exceeding $6.9 billion, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Report from 2021.
- Rising inflation and interest rates, along with the continued effects of the pandemic and global instability, resulted in 63% of U.S. banks reporting a year-over-year decline in quarterly net income, according to the highly watched first quarter banking profile from the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
- Erin Hohnbaum and Natalie Ghidotti are the embodiment of “been there, done that,” when it comes to launching and growing one’s own business. Now, the two Little Rock entrepreneurs have partnered on a new co working space, The Nest, specifically designed to give other women the environment and support they need to do the same.
- As the nation’s student loan bubble nears $1.6 trillion, a big fight is brewing over whether the federal government should be responsible for paying overpriced, interest-laden educational debt.
- Central Arkansas voters will cast their votes in the Democratic and Republican Preferential Primaries on Tuesday (May 24), opening the state to choose the next governor and other down-ballot offices.
- Each May, thousands of Arkansans, both young and old, make their way across a stage to celebrate a major achievement in life – college graduation.
- As the traditional start of the nation’s summer vacation season is expected to kick off on the upcoming Memorial Day holiday with a post-pandemic boost in travel, gas prices are slowly ratcheting back up to near record levels due to $100-plus barrel crude oil.
- In a move that caught state housing advocates off guard, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said last month he is sending back millions of dollars in unused COVID-19 rental assistance to the federal government as the state’s employment levels and economic fortunes return to pre-pandemic norms.
- The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has chosen Joshua Silverstein, Noureen Siraj, and John Kirk as the 2022 winners of the Faculty Excellence Awards. This is the highest honor UA Little Rock awards its faculty members.